To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHow long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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